Dogs at the bus stop?

[Anonymous]

This wins the weirdest thread of the week....

Dogs and kids get along fine in the real world. How the heck does your kid survive play dates with dog families?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dogs don't belong at a bus stop, unless it is a service animal. Bus stops are for people.

To those of you who can predict what dogs can do, you are wrong. A mom thought it was safe to bring her dog to the bus stop. These folks lived accross the street from the bus stop. No need whatsoever to bring the dog. Well, one day, several of the kids at the bus stop started taunting the dog while the clueless owner chatted away. When my daughter arrived at the bus stop, the dog was so riled up, he lunged at something dangling from her backpack and missed and bit her on the arm. She landed flat on her butt on the concrete sidewalk. I also had another child who was terrified of dogs. Rightfully so, she had been bitten by one as a toddler. I was so scared that if she saw this dog again, she would launch into panic mode and race out into the street and I let the owner know that. The owner promised that she would not bring the dog to the bus stop after that and promised to get obedience training. She did neither and her husband was a real you know what to me. I called animal control and that put an end to it. It is NOT cute to bring your dog to the bus stop. It is dangerous. Kids wear dangly things on their backpacks that can attract dogs and they shouldn't have to adjust for a dog owner.

[/b]wwwSounds to me that it's children misbehaving, not the dogs.[b] You shouldn't have called animal control, you should have contacted the parents.

As for you - go pound sand. A bus stop is a public place. I don't have a dog, but when I get one I'll make sure to bring one just to piss people like you off.

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Why is the first PP criticizing the "clueless" dog owner for not stepping in when it was the kids who were bothering the dog, not the dog bothering the kids? Why didn't the clueless parents step in & tell their kids to stop torturing the dog???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Another invented problem.

Not OP, and not an invented problem. Yesterday, at our ES bus stop, there were FOUR dogs and one running around off leash. We have 22 children at the bus stop and it gets crowded, if you are standing off to the side with your leashed dog who can sit, fine. Not okay when all the dogs are barking, jumping, on very long extended leashes, generally causing a nuisance.

Same happens when we walk to school...dog walkers take up entire sidewalks and allow their dogs to be on a very long leash, which means the dog is sniffing every kid, jumping up, making kids move out of the way.

Alas, this is not a dog problem. It's a dog-owner problem. And I don't think you will have much success asking them to keep their dogs on a short leash.

So, it is hopeless? Do dog owners not have basic common sense? In this case of our 22 kid bus stop, the parents walk their kids up to the stop with the dog and it is just chaos.

Love me, love my dog.

[Anonymous]

It's fine to take your dog to a bus stop. But if you take your dog to a bus stop it is up to you to control your dog. If some kids aren't behaving nicely, it is up to you to remove the dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's fine to take your dog to a bus stop. But if you take your dog to a bus stop it is up to you to control your dog. If some kids aren't behaving nicely, it is up to you to remove the dog.

It's also the parents' responsibility to teach their kids not to be cruel to animals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dogs don't belong at a bus stop, unless it is a service animal. Bus stops are for people.

To those of you who can predict what dogs can do, you are wrong. A mom thought it was safe to bring her dog to the bus stop. These folks lived accross the street from the bus stop. No need whatsoever to bring the dog. Well, one day, several of the kids at the bus stop started taunting the dog while the clueless owner chatted away. When my daughter arrived at the bus stop, the dog was so riled up, he lunged at something dangling from her backpack and missed and bit her on the arm. She landed flat on her butt on the concrete sidewalk. I also had another child who was terrified of dogs. Rightfully so, she had been bitten by one as a toddler. I was so scared that if she saw this dog again, she would launch into panic mode and race out into the street and I let the owner know that. The owner promised that she would not bring the dog to the bus stop after that and promised to get obedience training. She did neither and her husband was a real you know what to me. I called animal control and that put an end to it. It is NOT cute to bring your dog to the bus stop. It is dangerous. Kids wear dangly things on their backpacks that can attract dogs and they shouldn't have to adjust for a dog owner.

Sounds to me that it's children misbehaving, not the dogs. You shouldn't have called animal control, you should have contacted the parents.

As for you - go pound sand. A bus stop is a public place. I don't have a dog, but when I get one I'll make sure to bring one just to piss people like you off.

Your posts are tiresome and repetitive at this point and your reading comprehension skills are pathetic. Don't you have a job or some kids to raise? I called animal control because the owner brought the dog back to the bus stop despite saying that she wouldn't after lunging at and BITING my child who did NOTHING to antagonize that dog. Oh, and I later learned that the UNTRAINED dog, whom the CLUELESS dog owner allowed OTHER children to ANTAGONIZE at the bus stop while she did NOTHING, had nipped at other people's heals as they would jog in front of their house. I learned to always call AC immediately if there's an incident involving a dog and let them do the investigation rather than trying to solve the problem on my own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get the impression that the people complaining about dogs know absolutely nothing about dogs. We have dogs at the bus stop as well as people walking by with their dogs who stop to chat. There has never been a problem or a complaint.

1) Yes, if a dog is a biter the owner should get rid of it. 99% of domestic dogs have never bitten anyone and would never try to.
2) Dogs are not attracted to dangly things on backpacks. They are not fish.
3) Dog allergies are an indoor problem. Nobody is going to have an allergy problem from a dog walking by them on the sidewalk.
4) If the kid has a dog phobia, it's likely due to the parent's negative reaction to dogs. The bus stop is a great place to get to know dogs and lose the phobia.

I have had over a dozen dogs. My child had a phobia of dogs because when she stayed over at a relative's house and got bit by their dog. Period. I had nothing to do with her intense fear. NO, the bus stop is NOT your personal classroom in which you see it as your mission to teach kids to get over their phobia of dogs. WHY? Because kids will run into traffic in FEAR of a dog. The best place to get over their phobia of dogs is in a safe place where they don't face the danger of RUNNING out into traffic.

[Anonymous]

Today my family got chased on our bikes by some idiot's dog that ran out from their open gate in their yard. Then when we arrived at the library/park I got pounced by a huge lab that was taller than me standing on his hind legs and was off his leash and running like a maniac. Not very impressed with dog owners today.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's fine to take your dog to a bus stop. But if you take your dog to a bus stop it is up to you to control your dog. If some kids aren't behaving nicely, it is up to you to remove the dog.

It's also the parents' responsibility to teach their kids not to be cruel to animals.

Yes, it is the parents' responsibility to teach their kids to not be cruel to animals. But school children MUST stand at the bus stop, the dog does not have to be there. If you bring a dog to a bus stop it is up to you to watch your animal. If the dog being there is a causing an issue it is up to the dog owner to remove the dog.

[Anonymous]

For the record I have never seen a dog at my neighborhood's bus stops so I assume the dog owners wher I live have common sense.

[Anonymous]

It is rude. The children and their parents have no choice but to go to the bus stop. So they are all there waiting for the bus. The dog walker is intruding into the situation because they are making a deliberate choice to walk their dog at that moment to a busy bus stop. Most of the time they think they are socializing their dogs. But really they are just intruding on the school bus kids and their parents. BTW, no one in our neighborhood does this -- too polite. They cross on the other side of the street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is rude. The children and their parents have no choice but to go to the bus stop. So they are all there waiting for the bus. The dog walker is intruding into the situation because they are making a deliberate choice to walk their dog at that moment to a busy bus stop. Most of the time they think they are socializing their dogs. But really they are just intruding on the school bus kids and their parents. BTW, no one in our neighborhood does this -- too polite. They cross on the other side of the street.

Nope wrong. Intrusion implies you own the place. You don't have more of a right to that public space than a person with a dog.

If you want to live in your own little bubble and declare yourself king, go buy an island.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's a public street. People are allowed to walk their dogs on a public street, as long as they obey the leash laws.

Get over it, OP. If your kid has a phobia, it's time to see a therapist.

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Exactly. It would completely unreasonable for you to ask someone to not bring their dog because of your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This wins the weirdest thread of the week....

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and OP never came back after the first post so we don't even know if there was even a "problem"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had my younger child strapped in her stroller at the bus stop waiting for her kindergarten brother's bus to arrive. One of the large dogs got right up in my younger child's face before I could block it. I said something and the owner was polite but that is just NOT COOL.

Dogs get excitable around kids. Then they jump and it can freak kids out. And of course the owner knows he's being playful and says "He's just playing!" but a kid who doesn't know your dog or isn't around dogs a lot (because they're allergic and can't own them or stay at houses with them), doesn't know that. It isn't fair to make kids deal with a dog they don't know when they're just trying to wait for the bus.

It's a public space. If kids are going to be in a public space, its completely fair to ask them to learn to deal with other people and animals and things and events that occur in public spaces. If they don't learn to handle themselves over something that small, they are going to be neurotic messes their entire lives. Stop coddling these kids. It's not good for them.

First quoted poster here. Are you kidding me last poster??? And what if my child, strapped in her stroller, had grabbed at the dog?!? How do you think that would have gone???? I very rarely curse but......you're a fucking idiot. As well as entitled.

If your kid, strapped in a stroller, grabs at a dog, then your kid is rude and disrespectful and you're a bad parent. The problem isn't the dog, the problem is you and your child.

What if your kid had ran into a busy street and got hit by a car? Would you blame the car driver? Never mind, you probably would.. because you know.. your child can do no wrong and you apparently don't believe in parenting or personal responsibility.

The world doesn't owe you anything.